Brave Space Intensives utilize the complete Your Privilege Is Showing framework- a skill building three-round game in which each round increases in difficulty. Throughout the three rounds, Lillian Medville, the creator of Your Privilege Is Showing guides participants through challenging, courageous conversations in 2 hour or 4 hour sessions that are only sold in multi session packs.

The fundamental philosophy of Your Privilege Is Showing is that systems of oppression (sexism, racism, privilege, ableism, and classism, among others) are both personal and universal. No matter who we are, we have all internalized and participated in these systems, and are hurt by them in some way… but we don’t talk about them. If we can't talk about the way the world around us enforces and reinforces systems of oppression, we can't even begin to understand our part in them.

Brave Space Intensives provide the space for these conversations to happen while the Your Privilege Is Showing game provides the structure. The Y.P.I.S. framework takes present day examples of sexism, racism, heterosexism, misogyny, ableism, privilege, as well as other forms of injustice, and asks participants to identify what kinds of biases are in operation and how to interrupt that behavior. There are also mechanisms built in to discuss other participants’ opinions, questions, and constructive disagreements.

OUTCOMES for participants

Improve communication skills to better navigate complex, charged topics
Build understanding, empathy, trust, and cultural competence
Learn how to recognize and name social injustice
Work through the discomfort of talking about their own culpability with white supremacy, patriarchy and other forms of bias based on privilege
Become aware of the ways social justice and injustice impacts all of our daily lives
Understand that systemic oppression is societal in scale while also being deeply personal in impact